After over two decades, the Gujarat government, which was the first to lay down a port policy in the country in 1995, has decided to revive the policy that would nearly double the existing port (480 million tons) capacity to 1 billion tons by 2020 besides identifying new locations for greenfield ports.

Gujarat Maritime Board, the regulator for all the non-major ports or ports that are not controlled by Central government in Gujarat, has got a nod from the state government last month to revive the policy with a target to maintain the present share of GMB traffic (32 percent) in the India’s maritime trade which is the maximum by any state in the country.

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